GUEST COLUMNISTS

• FDA Modernizes Container Closure Guidance: What Is Changing And Why It Matters

  The proposed revision reflects changes in packaging technology, drug delivery systems, quality risk management, and more that have occurred since 1999's guidance.

• CDMO Selection Beyond Capabilities And Price

  Some of the most useful information relevant to CDMO selection is also the hardest to obtain. Here are suggestions for uncovering data that tells the whole capability story.

• August 2026 — CDMO Opportunities And Threats Report

  Each month, Outsourced Pharma works in conjunction with PharmSource, part of GlobalData, to present its “Contract Manufacturing: Opportunities and Threats (CMOT) Report” to our readers. The report identifies CDMOs that might be impacted by key events affecting their clients, including company acquisitions, product acquisitions and licenses, product approvals, late clinical product terminations, and FDA rejections.

• Building Sustainable Biopharma Supply Chains Starts With Procurement

  Nearly all the industry's emissions happen upstream from core manufacturing functions. This puts sustainability almost entirely on the shoulders of purchasing.

• Why You Should Measure Comparability Debt Before Ever Starting A Study

  When analytical capability and process understanding fail to keep pace with a drug candidate, the technical uncertainty creates debt that's difficult to pay down.

• What FDA Inspectors Want From Your OOS File

  Read enough FDA warning letters and a pattern emerges: Investigators rarely cite a retest that was performed badly. They cite a retest that nobody justified in writing. Let's take a closer look.

• You Can't CAPA What You Can't Classify

  An LLM or agentic error can occur with no component broken in any way the QMS recognizes. Classifying it takes two fields: the error type and the error origination point.

• AI Fills The Decision-Making Gaps In Process Analytical Technology

  When combined, artificial intelligence and PAT help move beyond reactive quality testing to proactive and anticipatory process management.